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It’s the third day of school. It’s raining because we have a tropical storm headed our way. I drive 2 minutes away to pick up my daughter from school so she doesn’t have to walk home in the rain.

I’ve never been to the parent pickup area at the school. There are about 6 driveways into the front of the school, two of which are obviously for the busses because there’s about 14 big yellow cheese-wagons parked there. Four others have cars in them, so I pull into the closest driveway and pull up. As I drive around some parked cars, I see a school bus. One lonely school bus. So I stop waaaaay back from the bus and wait. There are 2 cars parked ahead of me, near the bus. 4 other cars have pulled in behind me, and many that are parked in spaces.

A school employee walks out into the parking lot and comes right up to me and starts yelling. “THIS IS FOR SCHOOL BUSSES ONLY!!” I put my window down and tell her “ok, I didn’t know, I’ll turn around” and I start to pull forward. I mean I barely got the car moving and she practically screams at me “NO!! SCHOOL BUSSES ONNNNLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!

So I tell her “I’m just turning around, where do you suggest I go?” I drive a New Beetle. I had room to do a 3 point turn and turn around. She then yells, “FINE, JUST RUN OVER SOME KIDS WHILE YOU’RE AT IT!!”

I’m not kidding. I sat there just looking at her with my mouth open as she walked away. I seriously could not believe she suggested that I was going to run over some kids.

The bus left about 30 seconds later. More and more cars came into the loop. I just stayed where I was and waited for Sydney. Fortunately, she normally walks home so I don’t have to deal with that shit anymore.

That lady must have had a really, reeeeallly bad 3rd day of school.

Yellowstone vacation pix are online! There are 369 photos for your enjoyment. But don’t feel like you have to view them all. I won’t be offended if you skip through, hell, I won’t even know. I hope you enjoy them.

Here’s a teaser…

We had a fantastic time. Yellowstone is so incredibly gorgeous with so many different types of scenery to see. Snowtopped mountains, green plains, canyons, waterfalls, gentle streams and whitewater. Cool rivers next to steaming geothermal features. Boiling mud pots, steaming geysers, and wildlife. Just breathtaking.

While we didn’t have any major incidents, I did save a child’s life. Well, probably. At the Upper Falls, the thin railing is all that keeps you from falling into the raging waters and over the 100 foot drop. As I stood watching the water, a kid next to me ducked under the railing and stood on a rock. One more step and it was a sheer drop to the fast flowing water below and over the falls. I immediately and without hesitation yelled at him, “Get DOWN and get over here!” He jumped back over to the safe side of the railing and stood there looking at me. I just blinked and looked around for his parents. He couldn’t have been more than 5. No one was obviously his parent, everyone was just looking over the falls.

Whoever that child belonged to, I saved your kid. You don’t even know it because you were too interested in watching the water to hold your baby’s hand. I think I scared him, but it was far better than the alternative. You’re welcome.

Oh, yeah… we’re back from Yellowstone. We’ve been back a few days. No one was eaten by a bear. I’m sorry I made you worry.

We’re just tired… and busy. The kids go back to school on Monday! I’ll post pix of the trip ASAP! It’s kinda funny how a “relaxing vacation” can totally wear you out.

But I know when I’ll be back again.

We’re leaving tomorrow morning for a 2 week vacation. We’re flying to Salt Lake City to visit family and friends, then driving to Yellowstone to go camping.  We’ll be back home just in time for the kids to go back to school.

Yes, I thought that was rather conveinent.

I technically can do some mobile blogging while away, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I will, unless I have something fantastic to tell you. Or I’m bored.

But I’ll plurk something at least so you know I didn’t get eaten by a bear. (Watch that space to the right for plurk action! —–>)

Move along, nothing to see here. I’m just testing the Wordpress application from the App Store on iTunes. It seems to be working just fine, but it still takes me forever to type on my iPod.

I don’t see myself using this all the time, but it will come in handy while I’m away on vacation. So I can be a true internet geek and blog while I’m away. I know! Lucky you!!!

Just a little FYI for my blog readers (and Plurk friends!) I only have 3 yarns in my shop, but they’re all really nice yarns, and they’re all on sale now until July 30th because I’m going on vacation on the 31st. They are all marked 50% off the original prices.

Take a peek!

Once I get back from vacay, I will get back into the groove of things and be making more knitting pouches and spinning yarns again.

My mom, my daughter and I went out to lunch on Saturday on our way to the nail salon. We shared a platter on which had some fried oysters. I love oysters.

As I was eating one, I crunched down on something hard, like a huge piece of sand, so I spit it out. It was a pearl. A real honest to goodness pearl. Fresh from an oyster.

It tips the scale at nearly 1/10 of an inch. 0.082″ to be exact which is roughly 2mm.

Ok, so I can’t retire off it, I couldn’t even pay for the meal with it. But the waitress though it was neat.

It is the right size for a nose stud though…